May 1, 2011
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| Gorgeous sandstone, Cape Point, South Africa, April 2011. |
Back in January Callan Bentley over at Mountain Beltway posted these pictures of some rocks with interesting weathering patterns. In response, I posted pictures of some more rocks with similar weathering patterns.
A couple of days ago my fiance and I did a few hikes around Cape Point, South Africa. There is abundant sandstone all around the point– most of the sandstone around Cape Point and Cape Town is part of the Table Mountain Sandstone Group (TMG).
As we wandered around Cape Point, we noticed some interesting weathering features in the sandstone. Some of the weathering features are similar to the features Callan and I posted pictures of back in January. Feel free to click on any of the pictures below for a larger version. In some of the pictures there is a 50c Rand coin (which is slightly larger than an American nickel) for scale.
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| Sandstone layers, Cape Point, South Africa, April 2011. |
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| View from the lighthouse, Cape Point, South Africa, April 2011. |
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| Lizard hanging out on some sandstone, Cape Point, South Africa, April 2011. |
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| Sandstone boulder with interesting weathering, Cape Point, South Africa, April 2011. |
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| Close-up of interesting sandstone weathering, Cape Point, South Africa, April 2011. |
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| Venus Pools 1, Cape Point, South Africa, April 2011. |
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| Sandstone weathering at Venus Pools 1, Cape Point, South Africa, April 2011. |
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| Sandstone weathering at Venus Pools 2, Cape Point, South Africa, April 2011. |
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| Venus Pools 2, Cape Point, South Africa, April 2011. |
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| Venus Pools 3, Cape Point, South Africa, April 2011. |
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Cape Point, sandstone, weathering
Awesome new examples; the (new?) phrase that pops to mind is "vein stain."
After bouncing about the internet a bit after looking at your pictures it seems people like to describe this sort of thing as honeycomb weathering. Do you think that given lots more time the rocks in these pictures would hollow out in the centres and just leave the outer dark edge like many of the honeycomb pictures I saw seem to look like. Until I came across your site I never really appreciated how pretty and interesting rocks could be 🙂
Just found another example.